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| Apart from the well known [http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm Newsmap] visualization that utilizes [[Treemap|Treemaps]] to present the current distribution of [http://news.google.com/ Google News] topics, another very interesting visualization exists: '''[http://news.stamen.com/ In The News]''' is the title of Michal Migurski's interactive Flash application that was posted already a year ago:
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| In contrast to [http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm Newsmap] that only shows current news, '''[http://news.stamen.com/ In The News]''' adds temporal aspects via presenting the history of news topics over time. Thus, it allows for interactive exploration of the development of news topics over time.
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| [[Image:In_the_news.gif|none|thumb|800px|In The News (Google News visualization)<br>[Migurski, 2004] Michal Migurski, In The News. Created at: June 9, 2004. Retrieved at: July 21, 2005. http://news.stamen.com/]] | |
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| *One week worth of news is represented in rows on the display.
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| *A single news topic is represented as ''color chip'' whereas the size of a chip denotes its relative importance on that day.
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| *Color is used to show whether an item has gained or lost importance relative to the previous day.
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| *When selecting a news topic, the corresponding ''color chips'' are highlighted and a small bar graph showing the topic's performance over the last month is shown below the main visualization.
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| *If a new topic is selected, another small bar graph is added while keeping the history of the last five selected topics visible and allowing for their comparison.
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| *Furthermore, news topics can be searched and lists of ''Top Names'', ''Top Gainers'', and ''Top Losers'' are provided.
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| The different views are very well coordinated and smooth transitions are provided, which adds to the coherent picture of the whole application making it an excellent example for a highly interactive exploration tool for time-oriented abstract data. And even nicer, the source code is available and released under a Creative Commons License.
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| ''via '''[http://www.sendung.de/ sendung.de]''' blog''
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| == References ==
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| [Migurski, 2004] Michal Migurski, In The News. Created at: June 9, 2004. Retrieved at: July 21, 2005. http://news.stamen.com/
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